Posted on 07/05/2024 8:15:46 AM PDT by Libloather
The National Education Association Staff Organizations (NEASO) announced Friday it is going on strike days ahead of a speech President Biden is supposed to make at the NEA’s annual convention.
The NEASO said they were on a Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike against the NEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., filing two ULP complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.
The group alleges the country’s largest teachers’ union has not bargained over unilateral changes, accusing the NEA of wage theft and failing to provide information regarding outsourcing $50 million to contractors.
“The National Education Association has threatened to host its convention virtually to avoid a physical picket line. For a union to trick its members into crossing a picket line is reprehensible. It also confirms what we have been saying: NEA has abandoned its union values with its actions at the bargaining table,” said NEASO President Robin McLean.
“NEA would rather cancel a multi-million-dollar convention than comply with labor law. NEA members should question where their hard-earned dues dollars are being used — and wasted,” McLean added.
The strike will last for two days at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Biden is set to be one of the speakers at the NEA convention, but the strike could endanger that appearance. He has repeatedly referred to himself as the most pro-labor president in history and in September he became the first sitting commander in chief to join a picket line, marching with autoworkers in Belleville, Mich.
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There IS a conservative movement in the public school teachers' ranks and they're not buying into the woke rhetoric.
They should try that with Trump. He said he might axe the whole agency.
Does it get any more ironic?
Inasmuch as I doubt their plurality within the Union, they do get to live with the consequences of woke conditioning. So its existence is understandable.
The National Education Association Staff Organizations (NEASO) announced Friday... they were on a Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike against the NEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., filing two ULP complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
There's probably some kind of backstory powergrab going on here as well, but that's just a hunch.
All Liberal elites think they can do whatever in the hell they want, because they think their political positions will protect them.
> There IS a conservative movement in the public school teachers’ ranks… <
Yes, indeed. And it has always been there. I was an involuntary member of a teachers union for decades. And the membership has always pretty much reflected the makeup of the neighborhood.
The problem is that teacher union elections are wildly undemocratic. I could tell you stories that would make Stalin blush. So while the membership might be 35% conservative, there’d be no conservative leaders.
Outlaw teachers and government workers unions!
The product of the Government Schools condemns the unions!
This is a beautiful leftist circular firing squad.
The NEA has become one big pervert grooming enterprise.
The most precious fantasy about closing the DoED forever is the crushing of the teacher’s union and the other related scum for good.
I’m a retired HS art teacher. Both the NEA and the AFT are run by communists who literally hate America.
I'm sorry, Don Corleone, some of the thugs and hitmen have their own godfather now.
Liberals like in hollywood and the NEA will steal from and cheat each other.
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